Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-27


the Santa Monica and Santa Anna noun
tains
The arabic land, which is only one third
of the total area consists Of valleys between
the mountain chains, high table lands and
foot hills which skirt the mountain chains.
In these valleys are located the principal
cities and agricultural settlements of the
county.
In the center lies the Los Angeles valley
watered by q river of the same name.
| Further east lie the San Gabriel and Santa
Ana valleys. The rivers which drain these
two valleys are supplied with their water
from the mountains, where rains are fire.
quent and cOpious. All along these
sire ans ifrigating bitches divert the water,
50 that the lower portions Of their beds
are dry except in the rainy season, The
vast amount of water which goes to waste
during the winter will, as the settlement of
the country demands it, be stored in huge
reservoirs made by damming the valleys in
narrow places, and viii largely increase
the acreage of tillable or igregated land.
The series Of valley taken together may
roughly be compared to a triangle 60 miles
Oh each side, aligned and criss- crossed by
ranges of foothills and greatly diversified.
Besides these rivers other sources of water
supply are springs and streams from the
smaller mountain canyons, and wells many
OF them artcsion. Along these streams are
stretches Of Countrywide especial valleys
which are classed as 'moist lands where
all ordinary agricultural products grow
without irregation The land rises
almost imperceptiby as you
leave these lands, forming our
"uplands" OF this class Of land is by The
largest area of arabic country, and it is dc
voted to the widest range of products from
grain to oranges Irrigation is indispensa-
bic except for the small grains which are
grown during the wet season.
The foothills or mesaS and still higher
lands are the choicest for oranges and for
the residence of people Of delicate health.
In fact they are the sanitariums of our IA
vOred cline, and ultimately will be dotted
with the homes Of those with whom elm
ate is the main thing to be desired, and
.. Climate is the leading factor in our
prosperity. If all the resources of south
ern California could be listed and inven-
toried and set down at their true CONNER
cial value, there is no doubt that climate
the first and best attraction Of the country,
would exceed any Of the others. Real es-
tate men are often accusnd jocularly of sell
ling climate at rather fancy prices along
with their farms and lots of land, but the
fact might as we'll be silently conceded that
they do.
If when Mr. Semi-Tropical transfers
to Mr.. Tenderfoot a bearing orange
orchard at 81 900 an acre, there was not
an unwritten clause in the deed which con-
veyed squar section of southern Califor-
mia climate above and about said orchard
and all the ''tenements, Entertainments,
rights and reservations thereunto belong
ing, and if on one of these bright Deem
Der mornings the purchaser should come
along and find that section of Vermont
climate had been imposed on him, what
howl there would be, my countrymen-I
and what would the said orange orchard
be worth?
The south of France has great reputa-
ton in Europe for the wilderness of It's
climate, and thus has long been a popular
resort for tourists. Without any other
leading resource than its climate. the south
of France is a very prosperous country.
and will doubtless always remain SO.
But, says the iconselastic new conner.
you can't live on climate" Certainly
not. But can you live without it? Il
like the boys salt which he defined as the
stutI that makes potatoes taste bad when it
is left out With the ingredient of climate
well mixed into cur daily fare. we may not
consider Ii or appreciate ii very much, bat
let it be omitted 10y Dame Nature as she
cooks up the batch. and certes.
what a wry face we would make. We can
not live on climate, it is true but neither
can we live on land in the abstract. or on
water Give us. however land. water and
climate of the right sort. and supplement-
ing it with effort, We make living and
create wealth.
The choicest attraction Of southern Cali.
fornia climate is that it is good all the year
around. People do not need to fit here
for a few months and fit away again like
the migratory birds No season of TIE
year rates as 'unendurable"-n season is
markedly disagreeable or unhealthful
Through the winter the sun shines warmly
the greater part OF the time, and there arc
occasional showers and now and then there
is protracted rain of several days-much
like the summer weather Of the east. Flow
erS bloom in the open air all winter and